This Week in Laravel: Seed 1M DB Rows, and Best Laravel Packages

This week I decided to benchmark the process of simulating a lot of data in a Laravel project, you will see the link to the video below.

Also, check out the updated page on Laravel Daily for Best Laravel Packages!

• Tracking new version releases
• Adding package "quick summary" (with my video review if I have one)
• Cleaned up abandoned packages (~30 of them, sadly)
• Also, you can submit your package to be considered into this list of "best" packages!

I will shoot a separate video talking about a broader vision for this Laravel Packages page.

On top of that, below you'll see many new releases from the community. Enjoy!

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Insert 1M Rows to Laravel DB: 6 Ways on MySQL / SQLite / PostgreSQL (Benchmarks)

In this 14-minute video for Premium members, I'm comparing the speed of SIX different approaches to seed 1M records into users/posts DB tables, testing MySQL / SQLite / PostgreSQL, also comparing local MacBook Pro vs cheapest Laravel Forge $6 server.

From my YouTube Channel

New "AI-Friendly" Laravel Installer: Two Reasons NOT To Use It

I've tried a new feature in Laravel Installer v5.27: it detects that you're installing from AI agent and then suppresses the output. Cool. But then what is the end result?

FilaForms Plugin: Drag-Drop Editor to Build Custom Forms

Review of a Filament plugin FilaForms: let your Filament app users construct contact forms, event registrations, surveys and other forms, without knowing how to code.

Laravel API To Postman Collection: Package Quick Demo

A small but very useful package for Laravel API builders.

Laravel Forum Package: (Still) Need Discussions on Your Website?

I found an old package of Laravel Forum that still works in Laravel 13.

Dev Salaries in my Home Lithuania: Survey Results (Market Research)

I've conducted a survey in my home country Lithuania, and decided to translate it to English and shoot a video on this channel, so we can discuss the global dev job market from that context.

From Laravel Community

Jay on X: "Passkeys are now NATIVELY supported in Laravel"
x.com

A Shadcn-style Blade Starter Kit : r/laravel
reddit.com

A while back I posted about Starting Point UI, a framework-agnostic alternative to shadcn/ui I'm working on, and said I'd try building a Blade...

Using property hooks in PHP
dyrynda.com.au

PHP 8.4's property hooks let you replace simple getter methods with virtual properties, keeping a consistent property-based API.

Don't Make This Mistake with Laravel Livewire Islands!
youtube.com

Learn why wrapping Laravel Livewire Islands in conditionals causes them to fail.

Ashley on X: "Laravel developers now get websockets setup in ~40 seconds"
x.com

artisan vask:install will auth with vask.dev, give you a websocket app, and set those details in your .env file so you're ready to go.

Newton Job on X: "This validation rule looks simple enough, until you (and your agents) try to implement it in another framework."
x.com

Laravel remains the GOAT

Liam Hammett on X: " Just merged into Laravel is a new method to generate a "passwordrules" string from your password validation config"
x.com

This lets browsers and password managers generate your user's passwords and know that it'll be valid every time!

Ryan on X: "2 Composer scripts I use in all of my projects."
x.com

Taylor on X: "Laravel AI SDK now supports sub-agents."
x.com

Return an agent from another agent’s tools() method and the parent agent can delegate focused tasks to it, just like any other tool. Sub-agents can have their own instructions, tools, provider config, and isolated context.

Pushpak on X: "We've been busy on laravel/ai for past month"
x.com

Gemini TTS + STT, Azure OpenAI image generation, OpenRouter image generation, Bedrock Support, Sub-agents support, Configurable DB connection for ConversationStore. And multiple bug fixes.

A Practical Guide to Enhancing Applications with AI
youtube.com

In this video, we'll explore how to integrate AI into a Laravel application, focusing on practical, smaller AI-driven features rather than large-scale chatbo...

Marcel on X: "I vibe coded a little game for PHP devs."
x.com

How good do you all know your Carbon date methods?

Taylor on X: "We've made it super easy to enable HTTP Basic authentication on any Laravel Cloud environment."
x.com

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